Installing shadow/md5 passwords after the fact?

2001-03-28 Thread Ross Smith
I recently installed 2.2r0 and said no to the shadow/MD5 questions during installation 'cause I was gonna install NIS. Now I'd like to turn on shadow MD5 passwords. It seems that turning on MD5 passwords is as simple as # /etc/pam.d/login: password required pam_unix.so nullok obscure

RE: ssh 2 for Potato?

2001-03-22 Thread Ross Smith
From: Juliusz Chroboczek [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Anyone got a trusted source for a packaged ssh 2 for Potato? Try: #!/bin/sh # openssl.sh # http://www.openssl.org/source/ VER=0.9.6 APP=openssl DIR=$APP-$VER FILE=$APP.tar.gz URL=http://www.openssl.org/source/$FILE if [ ! -f

apt-getting KDE 2.1 breaks startx

2001-02-28 Thread Ross Smith
I recently installed Debian potato and apt-getted helix-gnome. Everything was working fine. Since I heard about KDE 2.1, and I prefer to use KDE, I did: apt-get install kdebase task-kde from deb http://kde.tdyc.com potato main crypto optional qt1apps The install worked fine, but now when I

ssh.postinst: dpkg-statoverride: command not found?

2001-02-20 Thread Ross Smith
I've been using ssh 2.3.0 with a stock potato install for a month now, with no problems. Now, after running: apt-get update apt-get upgrade I get: Setting up ssh (2.3.0p1-1.13) ... /var/lib/dpkg/info/ssh.postinst: dpkg-statoverride: command not found dpkg: error processing ssh (--configure):

Dual boot stable testing on 1 hard disk?

2001-02-07 Thread Ross Smith
I'd like to set up the following on hda: (potato) /boot (hda1, 5M) / (hda6, 4G) (woody) /boot (hda5, 5M) / (hda7, 4G) (shared) /home (hda8, 20G) (swap)(hda9, 256M) and dual-boot between them. Is this possible? If so, how? Is this the smartest way to accomplish the objective of

RE: full and halfduplex mode

2001-02-02 Thread Ross Smith
From: Peter Quiel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] i just wanna know how to force the ethernet kart in halfduplex mode .. its a rlt8139. I booted DOS, and used the config program that came with the card. Don't know how to do it in Linux (if it's even possible). Good luck, Ross

RE: PPTP with ppp 2.4.0f-1 and pptp-linux 1.0.2-3

2001-01-29 Thread Ross Smith
Jord, These links that may help: http://bmrc.berkeley.edu/people/chaffee/linux_pptp.html http://lists2.schulte.org/pipermail/pptp-server/2000-September/003342.html ftp://ftp.paranoid.nl/linux/pptpd We have it working with kernel 2.2.17. I'm interested in hearing if this patch will work with